East Roundup : Penn Beats Cornell, Earns Fifth Straight Ivy Title

Penn overcame five turnovers to win its fifth consecutive Ivy League championship with a 31-21 victory over Cornell Saturday at Ithaca, N.Y.

Senior tailback Rich Comizio scored the decisive touchdown on a 39-yard run in the third period.

Penn, which ended the season 10-0 overall and 7-0 in Ivy League play, held the Big Red to 58 yards total offense in the first half. The Quakers sacked Cornell quarterback Marty Stallone six times.

Cornell finished 8-2 and 6-1.

Boston College 56, Holy Cross 26--Shawn Halloran completed 20 of 27 passes for 281 yards and 4 touchdowns as the Eagles routed the previously undefeated Crusaders at Worcester, Mass.

The Division I-AA Crusaders, who led, 14-0, in the first quarter, finished their first season under Coach Mark Duffner with a 10-1 record. Duffner had taken over in the off-season after Rick Carter committed suicide.

The Eagles, who also got three touchdowns from tailback Troy Stradford, won their seventh consecutive game to finish 8-3 and will meet Georgia in the Hall of Fame Bowl Dec. 23 at Tampa, Fla.

Brown 45, Columbia 7--Quarterback Mark Donovan sparked a 28-point first-half surge that carried the Bruins to an Ivy League victory at New York as the Lions’ losing streak reached 31 games.

Donovan ran for one touchdown and passed for three more in the opening half as Brown finished 5-4-1 overall and 4-3 in the league. Columbia (0-10, 0-7) completed its third straight winless season.

Columbia is winless in its last 34 games, including two ties in 1983, matching the longest winless streak in modern major college football. Northwestern lost 34 in a row from 1979 to 1982.

Temple 29, Rutgers 22--Quarterback Lee Saltz, who threw two touchdown passes, scored the winning touchdown on a four-yard run with 1:43 left in the third quarter as the Owls defeated the Scarlet Knights at Piscataway, N.J.

Temple tailback Paul Palmer, who had 171 all-purpose yards, set an NCAA single-season record in that category. Palmer, who entered the game as the nation’s leading rusher with a 177.7 yards-per-game average and No. 1 in all-purpose yardage with a 246.2-yard average, gained 89 yards rushing and had 82 yards on kickoff returns.

He finished the season with 2,633 all-purpose yards, breaking the record of 2,559 set by Marcus Allen of USC in 1981.

Saltz’s four-yard touchdown run gave Temple a 26-22 lead. The senior also connected with wide receiver Keith Gloster on touchdown pass plays of 17 and 70 yards in the first half as the Owls finished the season at 6-5. Rutgers finished 5-5-1.

Dartmouth 28, Princeton 6--At Princeton, N.J., Joe Yukica went out a winner after nine years as the Big Green coach.

Senior quarterback David Gabianelli completed 23 of 36 passes for 244 yards and 4 touchdowns, and the Big Green dominated the Tigers in total yardage, 419 to 238.

Dartmouth finished the season at 3-6-1 overall and 3-3-1 in the Ivy League. The Tigers finished 2-8 and 2-5.

Yukica, who last year had to take Dartmouth to court to complete the last year of his contract, finishes his career at the New Hampshire school with a 36-47-4 mark.

Harvard 24, Yale 17--Sophomore Tom Yohe passed to senior George Sorbara for touchdowns on plays covering 10 and 53 yards as the Crimson rallied to beat the Bulldogs at Cambridge, Mass., in the 103rd renewal of the Ivy League rivalry that began in 1875.

Harvard finished 3-7 and 3-4, and Yale ended 3-7 and 2-5.

Lafayette 28, Lehigh 23--At Easton, Pa., Bruce McIntyre rushed for a career-high 251 yards and a touchdown to lead Lafayette (6-5) over Lehigh (5-6) in the 122nd meeting of college football’s most-played rivalry.

Syracuse 34, West Virginia 23--The Orangemen, trailing, 17-7, with 44 seconds left in the first half, rallied to beat the Mountaineers at Morgantown, W.Va., and finish the season 5-6 after an 0-4 start. West Virginia ended the season 4-7.

Colgate 27, New Hampshire 23--At Durham, N.H., Kenny Gamble rushed for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Red Raiders and set two Division I-AA single-season records. Gamble set records for all-purpose yards with 2,425 and rushing touchdowns with 21 in helping Colgate finish 4-7. New Hampshire finished 7-4.